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James Joyce
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  • As we now know, James Joyce envisioned every one of the eighteen episodes of the novel asa parallel to some incident or situation in The Odyssey.†   (source)
  • Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, and T. Coraghessan Boyle are only a few of those twentieth-century masters of the ironic stance.†   (source)
  • Not a very Irish name for a young man from Dublin, nor is it the first name he tried for young Stephen, but it's the one James Joyce settled on for A Portrait of the Artist As ali9ung Man (1916).†   (source)
  • AT THE BEGINNING of James Joyce's wonderful story "The Sisters" (1914), the unnamed young narrator mentions that his old friend and mentor, a priest, is dying.†   (source)
  • Let's look at the easy ones—James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and what we could call the "Intentionalists"—writers who attempt to control every facet of their creative output and who intend virtually every effect in their works.†   (source)
  • James Joyce?†   (source)
  • Sometimes influence is direct and obvious, as when the twentieth-century American writer T. Coraghessan Boyle writes "The Overcoat II," a postmodern reworking of the nineteenth-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's classic story "The Overcoat," or when William Trevor updates James Joyce's "Two Gallants" with "Two More Gallants," or when John Gardner reworks the medieval Beowulf into his little postmodern masterpiece Grendel.†   (source)
  • For many-headed is this surrounding Hydra; one head cut off, two more appear—unless the right caustic is applied to the mutilated * Or, as James Joyce has phrased it: "equals of opposites, evolved by a one-same power of nature or of spirit, as the sole condition and means of irs himundher manifestation and polarised for reunion by the symphysis of their antipathies" (Joyce, Finnegans Wake, p. 92.†   (source)
  • Where they dress for dinner but all of them have heard about James Joyce.†   (source)
  • DUBLINERS By James Joyce THE SISTERS THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.†   (source)
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Chapter 1 Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo….†   (source)
  • ULYSSES by James Joyce — I — Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.†   (source)
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